Advances in the assessment of ecological water requirements in estuaries

Shuikexue Jinzhan/Advances in Water Science

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 282-288

  Sun, Tao ^a   Xu, Jing ^a   Liu, Fang Fang ^a   Zhao, Rui ^a   Yang, Zhi Feng ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Ecohydrology; Ecological objectives; Environmental flows; Estuarine ecosystem; Freshwater inflow

Indexed keywords

ECO-HYDROLOGY; ECOLOGICAL OBJECTIVES; ENVIRONMENTAL FLOW; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEMS; FRESHWATER INFLOW;

ESTUARIES; HYDROLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY;

ECOSYSTEMS;

EID: 77952534581     PISSN: 10016791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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